Andy Rowell, who works at the Annoyance Theatre as a box office associate, kept his composure as he read the word “tequila” off the karaoke machine on Tuesday’s episode of the NBC competition. The audience clapped and danced along to the song. The judges — even karaoke-hater Simon Cowell — also got into the spirit.

“I’d like to hear the whole album, actually. It was so stupid I loved it,” Cowell said.